Nick Cunningham is an independent journalist, covering oil and gas, energy and environmental policy, and international politics. He is based in Portland, Oregon.
Gazprom has vowed to entirely cut out Ukraine as a transit hub for natural gas exports to Europe.The conflict with Ukraine has scrambled the longstanding…
Oil analysts and commodity traders watch the price of crude swing down and up, and are trying to figure out when and to what extent…
Oil is not the only energy source that is seeing a glut. Growing supplies of natural gas could soon result in a similar phenomenon. It…
Now that OPEC has left its production quota unchanged, the world will continue to see a glut in supplies, right?Some analysts aren’t so sure. Sanford…
If the West and Iran can sign a comprehensive agreement that leads to the removal of sanctions on Iran, how will OPEC respond to the…
Before the November 2014 OPEC meeting in Vienna, the head of Russia’s state-owned oil company Rosneft flew to Vienna to meet with OPEC members. The…
The Mexican government softened some rules on the bidding process for new oil tracts in an effort to placate private oil companies who had complained…
The six-month clock is up. OPEC is convening this week in Vienna, as it does every six months, to discuss and decide on how the…
2015 is shaping up to be a fateful year for the coal industry. After coal prices tumbled from their highs in 2011, the industry hit…
Shell’s Arctic campaign this year will be pivotal. If the company cannot find large reserves of oil, it will likely set back Arctic oil development…
There is no shortage of surprises in the world of oil. Nobody anticipated the rush of oil supplies that would come online in such a…
Global momentum towards action on climate change is building in the lead up to international negotiations, set to take place later this year in Paris.…
If Saudi Arabia, king of oil producers, sees an eventual end to fossil fuels, the world should pay attention.Climate negotiators are gearing up for a…
US companies have been scrambling over the past few years to build new export terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG). But just as the first…
Latin America is increasingly turning to China for an influx of capital.China’s Premier Li Keqiang took a tour of South America and on a stop…
A major city in Iraq fell to ISIS militants, marking another milestone in the ongoing war between the US and Iraqi governments on one side,…
Ten Members of the U.S. Congress – along with 32 of their staff members – received secret payments from Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil company to travel…
Is US shale about to make a comeback?Oil prices have rebounded strongly since March. The benchmark WTI prices soared by more than 36 percent in…
Another coal company bites the dust. Again.Patriot Coal, a miner of coal in several Appalachian states, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on May 12. Patriot…
The U.S. is seeking a rapprochement with Iran over its nuclear program, potentially ending several decades of hostility. But while the U.S. is extending an…